Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 336: Undercover

On the southern border of Luo City, Yu Cheng led his team of Nine Provinces members, rapidly advancing through the mountainous wilderness.

It was winter, and most of the vegetation in the north was withered, like the sparse hair of an elderly person.

At that moment, Yu Cheng, at the forefront, suddenly knelt on one knee, raising his right fist.

In an instant, all the Nine Provinces members behind him knelt on one knee, assuming a shooting posture.

Communications were silent.

Yu Cheng had already discovered the enemy's tracks, slowly approaching them.

He made a tactical gesture, signaling the members behind him to encircle the enemy from both flanks, while he himself would advance from the center.

Gunfire erupted. The sounds of gunfire in the mountains and fields were like the incessant firecrackers of New Year's Eve. Brass shell casings constantly fell to the ground.

The two wings that were encircling the enemy quickly put immense pressure on them from the sides.

But Yu Cheng suddenly felt something was wrong.

It wasn't that the enemy was too strong, but that they were too weak.

The enemy force consisted of only 12 people, and the battle was nearing its end almost as soon as it had begun.

These 12 Time Travelers had undergone training, giving them a semblance of soldiery, but the problem was that Yu Cheng's special task force was handpicked by He Jinqiu from the army, far surpassing what the enemy could achieve with a month or two of training.

Yu Cheng kept searching the forest, waiting for the figures from the hillside to reappear.

However, the enemy never showed themselves until the end of the battle.

The gunfire gradually ceased, and the forest regained its winter stillness and coldness, no longer boiling with action.

The next moment, he looked towards the left side of the forest, shifting his gun barrel to prepare to fire.

The blackness of the tree trunks blended perfectly with the night, the night's wilderness like a strange and dangerous maze, no one knew where the enemy would emerge from.

"It's me," He Jinqiu's figure slowly emerged from the forest, the moonlight illuminating his gray suit like a hazy veil.

"Password," Yu Cheng did not lower his gun.

He Jinqiu smiled, "The mountains and rivers are unharmed."

Only after hearing these four words did Yu Cheng finally lower his guard. "Boss? Did our intelligence go wrong? The enemy here is too weak, abnormally weak."

"Of course, it's abnormal," He Jinqiu looked at the scattered corpses nearby. These 12 Time Travelers hadn't posed any threat to Nine Provinces.

Yu Cheng pondered and said, "Did you encounter any experts from Shendai and Koshima? Someone was observing our team on the hillside just now; I suspect their experts are lurking nearby."

He Jinqiu smiled, "Don't worry, that was He Xiaoxiao. He didn't participate in the battle tonight; he was just doing some data assessment."

"I see," Yu Cheng nodded.

He Xiaoxiao was mysterious. Even within Nine Provinces, few had ever seen his real Face^[-]. Everyone knew of this "high-level player', but none had ever met him.

But if the expert on the hillside who had put so much pressure on Yu Cheng was He Xiaoxiao, where were the experts from Shendai and Koshima?

He Jinqiu looked towards the wilderness. "Our intelligence is correct. Nine Provinces and Kunlun both know that the Time Travelers entered Luo City from two directions, north and south. So Zheng Boss and I drew lots to decide who goes north and who goes south. Now, Shendai and Koshima only have this many people in the south, which means Kunlun will be very busy tonight."

"Should we go help?" Yu Cheng asked.

"No," He Jinqiu turned towards the main road. "We have other things to do."

"But if all of Shendai and Koshima's people entered Luo City from the north, can Kunlun hold them off?" Yu Cheng curiously asked.

He Jinqiu laughed. "Why are you all underestimating Kunlun? Even I don't dare to easily provoke the old squad leader. Don't worry, Kunlun is on their home turf; Shendai and Koshima won't be able to cause much trouble."

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The northern side of Luo City is bordered by the Yellow River. To cross the river and enter Luo City, there are only two bridges: the Luoji Yellow River Bridge and the Luo City Yellow River Highway Bridge, one east and one west.

If Shendai and Koshima's Time Travelers crossed these two bridges, they would only meet their deaths.

But at this moment, three ferries were moving on the black river surface, their navigation lights turned off, like the ghosts that had haunted the Yellow River for countless years.

Human water conservancy projects are great and vast. The muddy Yellow River flows from the distant northwest, finally undergoing water and sand regulation at the Xiaolangdi Hydropower Project, and the turbid river water becomes clear.

It's no longer so turbulent.

On the bow of the leading ship, a man stood silently, gazing at the shore, then made a tactical gesture towards the rear.

Two Time Travelers in diving suits jumped Face^[-]-up into the water. They carried small underwater propellers, the propellers' turbines rotating, churning the water into circles of bubbles.

The two Time Travelers cautiously climbed ashore, removing their diving gear and traveling light.

One of them quickly patrolled the wilderness and finally used a flashlight to send a three-long-one-short signal towards the river.

Seeing the signal, the man on the bow turned back and calmly said, "Dock."

The ferry's engine roared again, quickly heading for the shore.

But just as they were about to reach the shore, a rumbling sound came from further away.

That distant rumbling sound intertwined with the ferry's engine's roar, instantly tearing apart the original solitude on the river.

The man on the bow jumped hard into the river. While in mid-air, he roared, "RPG!"

No one had expected that Kunlun not only found the route of Shendai and Koshima but also used heavy firepower in this operation!

The Time Travelers were used to urban chases and small-scale street battles. Before this, Kunlun's methods had been relatively gentle, so they gradually forgot that Kunlun still had heavy firepower.

However, the reason Kunlun hadn't used these in the city was to avoid harming innocent civilians and to avoid causing panic due to public opinion.

Now, in the wilderness, they no longer had any scruples.

He Jinqiu had said that Kunlun was on their home turf, and that meant more than just familiarity with the environment; it meant that they could use weapons and equipment that others couldn't.

The next second, a high-speed rotating RPG rocket collided with the hull, a huge fire erupting into the sky, illuminating the entire river surface.

The Time Travelers on the other two boats quickly jumped into the river and swam towards the shore to avoid being hit by the rocket again and being buried with the ferry.

Others swam in the opposite direction.

The appearance of the RPG meant that their operation had been exposed; swimming to the south bank was a dead end at this point.

But before they could swim far, the sound of speedboats cutting through the waves came from the northern river surface, beams of spotlights shining down, more than ten speedboats approaching rapidly and aggressively.

A disheveled, bearded middle-aged man stood in a speedboat, using night vision binoculars to search the surface of the water. "11 o'clock direction, go get the people."

The speedboat drove next to a Time Traveler. Before the middle-aged man could speak, a young man in the river cursed, "Ni Ergou, you son of a bitch, why didn't you tell me you were going to use an RPG? I've been working hard as an undercover agent, and you do this? If I hadn't jumped quickly, I would have died on that boat."

Ni Ergou reached out to pull the other person up, smiling. "Using heavy firepower was the Boss's idea. If you want to complain, complain to him."

The drenched young man climbed onto the speedboat, pulled up by Ni Ergou. He didn't care about anything else; he quickly said, "Hurry up, I saw Bo Luo swimming west; go get them too."

Ni Ergou smiled, "Don't worry, someone's already gone. You two worked hard this month."

"More than hard work. Shendai's bastards didn't treat us like human beings; they used us as cannon fodder," the young man took off his clothes and changed into the clothes Ni Ergou had prepared on the speedboat.

The winter river water was icy and penetrating; if he didn't change clothes in time, he might get sick.

The young man's name was Bing Gao. The reason Kunlun was able to grasp Shendai's movements was because he and Bo Luo successfully infiltrated their ranks.

A month ago, Zheng Yuandong spoke to the two, asking them to pretend to inadvertently reveal their identities as Time Travelers at the "Ichiran Izakaya' in Zone 5 of City 16 and be "actively' captured by Shendai Family spies lurking in City 16.

In Zheng Yuandong's words, don't think of all the enemies in this world as scary; as long as you guess their intentions, you can control their fate.

In Zheng Yuandong's view, reverse time travel plans would inevitably reappear on a large scale, and Conglomerates would search for leaky Time Travelers like an arms race.

At this time, once a leaked Time Traveler appears, the other party will want to capture them immediately.

Therefore, there is no need to painstakingly infiltrate the opponent's internal ranks; they only need someone to reveal their identity as a Time Traveler in front of Shendai's spies, and the other party will naturally bring Kunlun's undercover agents in.

During this month, Zheng Yuandong asked them not to inquire about any intelligence or resist, to cooperate with Shendai's brainwashing and coercion.

There, they first suffered inhuman beatings and torture, then began to receive basic training from Shendai.

At that time, Bing Gao and Bo Luo didn't know what Zheng Yuandong wanted them to do. Initially, they thought their boss was planning to rescue the captured Time Travelers; later, they discovered that Shendai was very cautious and didn't give them a chance to determine their location.

Moreover, Zheng Yuandong didn't seem to intend to save them.

This made Bing Gao and Bo Luo very unhappy; they thought that they had been abandoned by the organization.

Only during the last time travel did the Shendai Family require them to participate in this reverse time travel operation, when Zheng Yuandong said, "Finally, I've waited."

Zheng Yuandong had been waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to severely cripple Shendai and Koshima's forces within the country.

It's still the same sentence: in the Octagonal Cage, when you punch at high speed, your opponent can dodge and move. If you use 100% of your strength, only 20% might land on their Face^[-].

If you want to win with one blow, you must let the opponent punch first. When the opponent's body twists and their brain moves quickly closer, then strike back.

The opponent's head coming towards you colliding with your iron fist is 100% power.

Not far away, Bo Luo was also successfully fished onto the speedboat.

Almost all of the Time Travelers who fell into the water were captured. Onshore, Lu Yuan had already brought people to seal off the entire area, and none of the Time Travelers who came by ferry could escape this search and interception.

However, at this moment, Bing Gao said, "Where's the Boss? I have something to report to him."

Ni Ergou took an earpiece from his ear and handed it to him, "The Boss is on the communication channel; you can speak directly."

Bing Gao took a breath and said, "Boss, this time, we are divided into three action teams, each taking three ferries. We were watched too closely before, so we didn't report in time. There are no main figures from the reverse time travel plan on the three ferries; they must have another route, a route that Bo Luo and I don't know about, and they may have already entered Luo City from somewhere."

Zheng Yuandong calmly replied, "Hmm, I know."

"Also," Bing Gao said, "Before the operation, we learned that Shendai and Koshima would each have an expert participating in this plan, but they shouldn't be on the ferries."

Ni Ergou was stunned when he heard this. "Why didn't you say it earlier?!"

However, Zheng Yuandong's calm voice came from the earpiece again, "It's okay, I've already found one of them."

After speaking, Zheng Yuandong hung up the communication.

On the speedboat, Bing Gao looked at Ni Ergou. "Have you found the address where I was imprisoned in the Inner World?"

"No," Ni Ergou shook his head. "You have to understand that we are all Time Travelers; we have been established in the Inner World for too short a time and our abilities are limited. But don't worry, Kunlun is also developing rapidly, and soon our intelligence capabilities will catch up."

Bing Gao immediately became anxious, "Ergou, what did you promise me before? If no one comes to rescue me the next time I go back, Bo Luo and I will die! If the mission fails, those bastards from Shendai will definitely kill us to silence us and then transfer us."

Ni Ergou glanced at him. "I was just kidding you; we've already found the location where you two were imprisoned in City 16. We'll carry out the rescue immediately when we return next time because there were too many people there before, making it difficult to act."

Bing Gao finally relaxed, "Don't deliberately keep me in suspense like that, you scared me to death!"

Ni Ergou was unhappy. "I'm your superior, can you be more polite to me?!"

Bing Gao thought for a moment and asked, "After this is over, Shendai and Koshima shouldn't be able to cause any more trouble for a while, right?"

"Hopefully."

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On National Highway 103 in the north of Luo City, a huge tanker was slowly driving from west to east, with warning signs painted in red paint on the tank.

When it reached the north of Wangcheng Avenue, the driver suddenly saw someone setting up roadblocks and checkpoints ahead, using flashing red and blue reflective bars to signal him to pull over.

After parking the car, the short, middle-aged man jumped out of the driver's seat, looking honest and kind, and asked with a smile, "Comrade, what's wrong? It's already night, large vehicles can enter the city."

The Nine Provinces member at the roadblock glanced at him. "Show me your driving license, vehicle registration certificate, business license, and hazardous materials handling certificate."

The short, middle-aged man smiled, "Okay, I'll get them for you, just a moment."

As he spoke, his eyes looked around, observing everything around him.

But at that moment, a sniper shot rang out from 400 meters away.

That was a Nine Provinces sniper, hiding in a nearby residential building.

The other Nine Provinces members present also opened fire.

Checking documents was just a pretense; Nine Provinces had already locked onto their target, intending to kill him here.

But just before the gunfire erupted, the short, middle-aged man suddenly retreated to the rear. With a bang, a deep crater appeared where he had been standing.

Even the Nine Provinces members' shots missed.

It seemed that no one expected that the man would evade the Nine Provinces snipers' shots in advance.

The next moment, the middle-aged man, instead of retreating, advanced, completely ignoring the snipers and aggressively charged into the dozen Nine Provinces members.

His strength suddenly burst forth, and a whip leg knocked a Nine Provinces member sideways, breaking their waist. It was clear that the sturdy spine was broken like firewood under this kick.

Nine Provinces members drew their guns and fired, but their aiming speed was much slower than his. Gunfire was incessant, but the expert wasn't hit.

In an instant, everyone who saw his speed and strength immediately reacted: a B-class expert!

This was one of the experts they had been looking for!

He entered the city alone driving a tanker, so the tanker probably contained the substitutes for the reverse time travel plan!

In a certain building, Tang Keke stood in front of a window, using a sniper scope to look at the battlefield, an earpiece in her ear. "Boss, we've got him; the information was correct. However, a B-class expert's speed is too fast; Song Zhong, Yang Nangsheng, and I can't hit him. Judging by his movements, it should be someone from Koshima."

There was more than one sniper present, but the middle-aged man seemed to have anticipated the snipers, his movements like a ghost, dodging all the bullets.

Only then did the snipers realize the terrifying power of Inner World Metahumans!

He Jinqiu's calm voice came from the earpiece, "I'm almost there. Did the Daybreak Boss appear?"

Tang Keke was stunned. She suddenly felt that her boss seemed to think that the Daybreak boss should appear.

Moreover, her boss seemed to want to kill two birds with one stone, catching Koshima's people and the Daybreak boss at once!

"Boss, he hasn't appeared," Tang Keke replied.

"Does Koshima's person have any intention of escaping?" He Jinqiu asked.

"No," Tang Keke replied.

"The snipers should move. There is more than one person present," He Jinqiu, who hadn't even arrived yet, had already made a judgment.

Tang Keke put away her sniper rifle and walked out, "Boss, you mean there are still people hiding in the dark?"

"Hmm, Koshima is also waiting for the Daybreak boss," He Jinqiu calmly said.

From the beginning, the Time Travelers who infiltrated Luo City from the south and north were just used as decoys and cannon fodder by Shendai and Koshima.

But this was expected by Zheng Yuandong and He Jinqiu, after all, who would really believe a group of Time Travelers who had been controlled for less than two months?

The real killing was only just beginning.

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